Balscote
| Balscote | |
| Oxfordshire | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Parish church of St Mary Magdalene | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SP390417 |
| Location: | 52°4’22"N, 1°25’53"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Banbury |
| Postcode: | OX15 |
| Dialling code: | 01295 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cherwell |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Banbury |
| Website: | balscote.org.uk |
Balscote or Balscott is a village near Wroxton in Oxfordshire, about four miles west of Banbury.
The Domesday Book of 1086 records the name as Berescote. Curia regis rolls from 1204 and 1208 record it as Belescot. An entry in the Book of Fees for 1242 records it as Balescot. Its origin is Old English, meaning Bælli's cottage, or manor.[1]
Church and chapel
The Church of England parish church, St Mary Magdalene, includes a Norman font and an Early Gothic window. Most of the present church building is 14th-century, built in a Decorated Gothic style.[2] It is a Grade II* listed building.[3] The parish of St Mary Magdalene is now one of eight in the 'Ironstone Benefice'.[4]
Balscote had a Methodist chapel but this has now been converted into a private home.
About the village
Many of Balscote's buildings are of local Hornton Stone. Priory Farm is a 14th-century hall, extended in the 15th century and modernised in the 17th and 18th centuries. Grange Farm is a 15th- or early 16th-century house, extended and modernised in the 17th and 18th centuries. Both houses may have been built by the owners of nearby Wroxton Abbey.[5]
Balscote has a public house, The Butchers Arms,[6] which is a Grade II listed building.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Balscote) |
- Balscote in the Domesday Book
References
- ↑ Ekwall 1960, Balscott.
- ↑ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 428.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1299831: Church of St Mary Magdalene (Grade II* listing)
- ↑ "Welcome to the eight Churches of the Ironstone Benefice in North Oxfordshire.". The Ironstone Benefice. 24 June 2019. https://ironstonechurches.wordpress.com/about/.
- ↑ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, pp. 428–429.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1185111: The Butchers Arms Public House (Grade II listing)
- Ekwall, Eilert, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 4th edition, 1960. ISBN 0198691033
- A History of the County of Oxford - Volume 9 pp 171-188: Wroxton (Victoria County History)
- O'Flanagan, J Roderick (1870). Lives of the Lord Chancellors of Ireland. Dublin: Longmans Green.
- Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, 1974 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09639-2
